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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN MARKHAM SISSONS, OF HULL, AND IVARREN SPEAR MAYO, OF OTTAWA,CANADA; SAID SISSONS ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE ROBERTSON, OF

OTTAIVA, CANADA.

FAGOT-MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 458,321, dated August25, 1891.

Application filed June 11, 1890. Serial No. 355,102. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JONATHAN MARKHAM SIsSONs, millwright, of the cityof Hull, in the county of Ottawa, Province of Quebec, and WARREN SPEARMAYO, gentleman, of the city of Ottawa, in the county of Carleton,Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Fagot-Making Machines; and we do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Our invention relates to devices which are designed to performautomatically the segregating and binding together of pieces of woodinto fagots or bundles convenient for handling in sale or otherwise. Itis embodied in the machine which is hereinafter described and which hasthe following essential features-namely, astrong frame supporting allthe working parts, a hopper and tube in the upper part of the frameprovided with retaining and releasing arms for carrying and deliveringthe fagot-sticks into one or more fagot-forming devices carried by arevolving disk fixed on a horizontal shaft centrally under the hopper, asliding head for carrying the bindingwire around the bundle and providedwith mechanism for twisting or tying it, and a shear for severing thewire,-all substantially as herein described, and illustrated in theannexed drawings, in Which Figure 1 is a front View of the machine; Fig.2, a side view; Fig. 3, a rear view; Fig. 4, a sectional elevation fromfront to rear on line a: a; and Fig. 5 a part sectional view of thehopper, trunk, and sliding head on line y y. Fig. 6 is an end view, andFig. 7 atransverse sectional view, 'of the fagot-former. Fig. 8 is a topview, and Fig. 9 a front view, of the sliding head; and Figs. 10, 11,and 12 are top, side, and lower end views of the twister. The latterseven figures are drawn to a larger scale than the previous ones. Fig.13 is a detached view of the three-armed 1e- Ver. Fig. 14 shows thedevice which controls the position of the arms that carry the sticksfrom the trunk to the cradle of the fagotformer. Fig. 15 is asectionthrough the disk P, looking downward, showing the device for opening theend-eveners. Fig. 16 shows the arms above mentioned delivering thefagotsticks into the cradle of the fagot-forming device. Fig. 17 is anelevation of a portion of the machine, showing the connections foroperating the lever-actuating rollers. Fig. 18 is an end elevation ofthe same, looking in the directions indicated by the arrows.

The post A, sills B, and girts O constitute the frame-work of themachine. The sticks which are to be bound into fagots are delivered intothe hopper D, in which they lie endwise across from front to rear of thehopper, filling the trunk E or downward continuation of the hopper, inwhich they are supported by the swinging arms F, which are rigidlyattached to the rocking pins G on opposite sides of the trunk. Thesepins pass through and are carried by the vertical sliding bars I, whichare connected with the two forward arms of the three-armed lever L bythe rods M. The lever L is fulcrumed on the top of the machine-frame.Its two forward arms are held by the springs T at the height of theirmovement, except when periodically lowered, as hereinafter explained, toallow the arms F to deliver their load of fagotsticks to the forming andbinding mechanism. \Vhen engaged in supporting the fagot-sticks in thetrunk, the arms F are held up against the bottom end of the trunk,sloping inward and meeting under its center, (see Fig. 1;) but when inthe working of the machine one of the fagot-formers is brought under thetrunk E the arms F are lowered with their load of sticks, until havingreached a certain point, 8 5 they are allowed to swing open and droptheir load into the cradle of the fagot-former.

The holding and swinging of the arms F is controlled by the followingdevice, viz: The short arms H are rigidly fixed to the rocking pins Gand have in their outer ends the laterally-projecting pins U. When thesliding bars I and arms F are at the top of their stroke, the pins U lieagainst the outer faces of the blocks V, which are secured to the 5sides of the trunk. The arms F are by this means held to point inwardunder the hopper-trunk not only while receiving their load offagot-sticks, but also while descending with them, until the pins U passover the I00 lower ends of the blocks V, when the weight of the loadupon the arms F will spread them apart, allowing the sticks to drop intothe cradle of the fagot-former and at thesame time throw the upper endof the arms H inward, so that by the upward movement of the sliding bar,with the arms F and H, the pins U will be drawn up through the grooves Ain the inner faces of the blocks V. Should the weight of the sticks befound insuflicient for opening the arms F, as above stated, a coilspring may be placed on the rocking pin, one of its ends secured to thesliding bar and the other to one of the arms, which will have thedesired effect. The grooves A are curved to open outward through thefaces of the blocks and their upper openings are covered by the springsB, so that as the pins U are drawn upward they are thrown out upon thefaces of the blocks, and the springs B close behind them and form astraight surface over which the pins U slide in their downward movement.

A device for preventing more than a sulficient number of sticks to forma fagot descending with the arms F is shown in Fig. 4, and consists in anumber of holding-levers J, pivoted at their top ends in the sides ofthe trunk E. About midway of their length they are bent outward. (SeeFig. at.) An eccentrio-roller K, journaled in suitable bearings, liesacross the outer ends of these levers and close above them, so that theturning of the eccentric will at regular intervals press down theseouter ends and press the angles of the levers against the sticks in thetrunk which are opposite them, and thereby prevent them and the massabove them from dropping down when the sticks below them are loweredaway into the fagot-former. The eccentric K may be operated by anyconvenient part of the mechanism.

In Figs. 17 and 18 are shown devices for operating the eccentric-rollersK, which actuate the holding-levers. These consist of a spur gear-wheel2, carried on the overhanging end of each of the eccentric-rollers, asliding rack 3, curved so as to overlie one of the wheels 2 and underliethe other, a lever 4:, pivoted to the lower part of the machine-frameand its upper end engaging with the rack 3. The throw of the lever 4 iseffected by means of a cam-wheel 5, fixed on the shaft 0 and having agroove 6 formed n its cylindrical surface, and a pin 7, fixed in thelever at and projecting into said groove. For each fagot-forming devicein the machine there is a lateral deflection of this groove, as shown inFig. 17, and in the revolution of the cam-wheel 5 as the pin 7 enterstheir deflections the lever 4: and rack 3 are thrown sidewise, thewheels 2 are turned, and the eccentric-rollers K are operated to hold orrelease the levers J, as required.

In the lower part of the machine there is a horizontal shaft 0,journaled in bearings on two of the girts C. On one end of this shaftthere is fixed the large disk-P and on the other end the cam-wheel Q, onwhich are formed the lugs B. As the shaft 0 revolves, the lugs R come upagainst a shoulder S on the rod N, which is attached to the rear arm ofthe lever L. The rear arm is thereby raised and the two forward armslowered, with the arms F, until the latter fall open and deposit theirload of sticks in the cradle, as above mentioned.

The fagot-forming devices, of which there may be one or several in themachinein the drawings we have shown three-are carried in the revolvingdisk P. Each of these consists of a steam-cylinder 0, set radially inthe .revolving disk P, a cradle D, and a crosshead E, fixed to the outerend of the pistonrod F, end-evening plates G, hinged to the disk P bythe rods H and having their rims 1 turned inward, and the cross-lever J,pivoted to the edge of the disk P and engaging with the rods H on bothsides of the disk (see Fig. 6) in such a way that the swinging of thecross-lever on its pivot will close the plates G inward or move themapart, as required.

WVe will now describe the mechanism for drawing the wire around thebundle and forming the twist-tie. It will be seen in the drawings thatthe four posts of the front part of the machine-frame are curved inwardand connected in pairs by the facingpiece: K forming two semicirculararches. On the inner faces of these arches there are formed the ribs L,which serve as ways or guides, upon which a sliding head M (shown inFigs. 8 and 9) travels from side to side of the machine and carries thebinding-wire over the bundle of sticks in the cradle. The branches iwhich project from the front edge of the sliding head, clasp the twisterO around its grooved middlepart loosely, so as to allow it to turnfreely between them. A space is left between the outer ends of thesebranches for the purpose hereinafter explained. The twister O is asmallcylindrical its middle and two grooves Q out in it longitudinally fromend to end on opposite sides and extending inward to near its axis. Theprojecting rim'left below the annular groove is notched, so as to makeit virtually a spurwheel, the function of which will appearfarther on.The obj ect-of the twister is the winding together of the two parts ofthe binding-wire where they are brought to meet around the fagot-bundle.The wire used for binding the fagots is coiled upon the spool P, whileits end is held in one of the grooves Q of the twister. When the arms Fare in the act of depositing their load of fagot-sticks in the cradle D,the sliding head M is waiting on the opposite side of the machine fromthe spool, and the wire extending from the spool to the head lies acrossthe cradle, so that the bundle is laid by the arms F directly upon thewire.

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body having an annular groove cut around The operation of this machineis substantially as follows: The eccentric-roller K is turned by itsconnection with the driving power so as to swing the holding-levers Jand cause their angles to grip and hold the sticks opposite and abovethem in the trunk E, when the sticks below them are lowered away. Theturning of the shaft 0 brings one of the cradles D directly under thecenter of the hopper D, and at the same time causes one of the lugs onthe cam-wheel Q to lift the rod N, thereby tilting the lever L andlowering the arms F, as above described, causes them to deposit theirload of fagotsticks in the cradle D and upon the binding-wire S. Therotation of the disk then brings the overhanging end of the cross-leverJ against an arm T, fixed to the machineframe,which swingsthelever and,pressingthe plates G closely against the ends of the sticks in thecradle, brings them even. It will then be seen that the rims I overhangthe ends of the sticks inward. Steam is then admitted below the pistonof the cylinder 0', which shoves the cradle outward and compacts thebundle of sticks against the rims I. .The short inner arm of one of thelevers U ,which are pivoted on the disk P, then comes againstastationary stop V',which throws forward the longer outer arm, which,coming against a drop-pin W in the sliding head, carries the slidinghead, and with it the wire end in the twister, over the bundle in thecradle. It will be easily seen that by this arrangement the sliding headmoves much faster than the motion of the disk P and carries the wire endahead of the bundle in the cradle. Before the sliding head is thusstarted to carry the wire over the bundle the spur-wheel formed on thelower end of the twister is meshed into the short rack X, which ispivoted to one side of the machine frame. This engagement of the twisterwith the rack gives the twister a half-turn, when the sliding head ismoved forward, so that when it is sent over the bundle the groove Q,which carries the end of the wire, is turned to the rear and the emptygroove in the oppo site side of the twister will be presented to andreceive the wire leading from the spool down under the bundle in thecradle, the space between the ends of the branches N allowing the wireto pass between them and into the forward groove Q. The rotation of thedisk P then brings the spur-wheel of the twister into gear with asegmental rack Y on the opposite side of the machine from the rack X andwhich is pivoted at Z to the machineframe. The revolving of the twisterthrough its engagement with this rack now brings the upturned tail ofone of the lever-hooks R against the outer face of a spring-stop A whichthrows its hook end in front of the wire and holds it in the groove. Themovement of the twister along the rack Y causes it to twist together thetwo portions of the wire leading downward from it to and around thebundle. The sliding head then strikes one end of a lever G which isfulcrumed on the sliding head, and when it is moving forward across themachine, carrying the wire over a bundle, the outer end of this leverslides upon the outside of the overhanging edge of a guide-strip D whichis secured to the top side of one of the semicircular arches of theframe above mentioned until after the binding-wire has been out. Thenthe outer end of this lever 0 passes under a cap E which causes it topass down through a gap in the guide-strip, and thereby draws thedrop-pin W up from the lever U and allows the sliding head to be drawnback across the machine by a weight and cord or other suitable means. Inthe meantime onward rotation of the disk has brought the overhanging endof the cross-lever J against an outward inclined rod 1 fixed to themachine-frame, and the end-eveners are thereby spread apart and thebound fagot allowed to drop from the machine. WVhen near the end of itsbackward travel, the end of thelever 0 moves up an incline through a gapF in the guide-strip, thereby lowering the drop-pin to be again caughtby one of the le- ,fulcrumed on the machine-frame, and has its other endconnected with the swinging end of the rack X, which is thereby thrownagain into gear with the spur-wheel of the twister. The levers B and Gare connected together by the wire or cord H so that they movesimultaneously either inward or outward.

The vertical sides of the hopper D may be made adjustable at variousdistances apart, so as to suit diiferent lengths of sticks, and thesloping sides are also made movable, so that they may be vibrated byeccentrics or other suitable device.

Respecting arrangement for the admission of steam to the cylinders andits escape therefrom, we would only'here say that perhaps the simplestway would be by making the shaft 0 hollow and leading the steam inthrough a pipe, as indicated in Fig. 15, in which a plug is fixed atashort distance from its end. Two openings are made in the side of thepipe, one on each side of the plug registering with similar openingsinthe cylinder. The openings in the pipe are made at such ITO points inits circumference as will allow of 1 the entrance of the steam on oneside ofthe plug and its escape on the other side at the proper time tosuit the working of the machine.

e do not claim, broadly, the use of steam in a cylinder for compressingthe bundle,

curved loops for holding against the crushing force, or a revolving diskfor twisting or tying the binding-wire on the fagot; but

WVe do claim as our invention 1. In a fagot-making machine, the hopperD, trunk E, and holding-levers J, pivoted in the sides of said trunk,the eccentric-rollers K, and means for operating said rollers,substantially as shown and specified.

2. In a faggot-machine, the vertically-slidin g bars I, carrying therocking pins G, the arms F and H, rigidly secured to said rocking pin,and the pins U in the arms H, arranged to move on the faces of andthrough grooves in the blocks V, which are provided with the springs Bfor controlling the action of the arms F, substantially as shown andspecified.

3. In a fagot-machine, the combination of the shaft 0, journaled on theframe, the camwheel Q thereon, the lugs R on said camwheel,'the rod N,arranged to be engaged by the said lugs, the lever L, having its rearend pivoted to the rod end, the bars I, the rods M, connecting the barsI to the forward ends of the lever L, the rocking pins G, sustained bythe bars I, and the arms F, carried by the rocking pins, substantiallyas described.

4. In a fagot-machine, the shaft 0, having secured on it the disk P,carrying one or more fagot-forming devices, substantially as shown andspecified.

5. A fagot-forming device consisting of a steam-cylinder set radially ina revolving disk centered on a horizontal shaft, a cradle secured to thepiston-rod of said cylinder for receiving the fagot sticks from a hopperabove it, and end-evening plates hinged to opposite sides of said disk,substantially as shown and specified.

6. The combination, in a fagot-machine, of a hopper and a trunk havingthe holding-1evers J with a fagot-forming mechanism having asteam-cylinder carried in a revolving disk, a cradle on the piston-rodof said cylinder, and end-evening plates hinged to sai disk,substantially as shown and specified.

7. The combination of a fagot-forming mechanism composed of asteam-cylinder carried in a revolving disk, a cradle on the piston-rodof said cylinder, and evening-plates hinged to opposite sides of saiddisk, with a sliding head moving on guides for carrying a bindingwireover the fagot and provided with a twister for securing the wire aroundthe fagot, substantially as herein shown and described.

Signed this 31st day of March, 1890.

JONATHAN MARKHAM SISSONS. WARREN SPEAR MAYO.

In presence of JAMES BRUCE SPENCE, ROBERT HARVEY BROOK.

